“We have always treated our animals with love and gentleness. Anybody who visits the farm can see that. But being a dairy farm at all is still adding to the READ ON
Harold Brown, former beef and dairy farmer
“I have often heard the word “humane” used in relation to meat, dairy, eggs, and other products… I have always found this curious, because my understanding is that humane means READ ON
Chris Mills: From Hunter & Dairy Farmer to Vegan Activist
I looked beside me on the highway and there was a tractor trailer hauling pigs to Quebec. That was the day I made the connection. I looked these poor animals READ ON
Former Dairy Farmer: “They Cried & Called for Their Babies. They Called & Called.”
To make a long story short, I used to be a very bad person. A terrible person. And I think that I still am, even to this day. Anything that READ ON
Dr. Who Grew Up On Dairy Farms Calls Dairy a Major Carcinogen
“Dr. Campbell spent his entire childhood, into adulthood, living and working on his family’s dairy farm, and undertook the China Study with the belief that animal protein was an essential READ ON
Texas Animal Farmer’s Transition to Vegan Activism
The following is an interview between Robert Grillo of Free From Harm and Bessie Von Messenger, a former animal farmer turned vegan activist living in Waco, Texas, who we recently discovered READ ON
Does Evolution Have a Gun to Our Head to Eat Animals?
We’ve published an excerpt from the book, Meat Logic: Why We Eat Animals by author Charles Horn, with his permission. The book takes an in depth look at the many READ ON
Is An Excuse-itarian Diet Keeping You From Living Your Own Values?
Colleen Patrick Goudreau’s rousing talk, “From Excuse-itarian to Vegan,” has reached nearly 100,000 viewers on youtube, and is a great tool for empowering others to live their own values of READ ON
A Mother At Last
In a natural environment, chicks would spend much of their first weeks of life peeping out from under their mother’s wings, or exploring by her side, feeling nurtured and protected. READ ON
Six Challenges to “Humane” Animal Product Claims
The movement to treat farm animals better is based on the idea that it is wrong to subject them to unnecessary harm; yet using and killing animals for their flesh READ ON
Comparing Animal Deaths in Production of Plant and Animal Foods
In the last several years, a number of arguments have gained traction by claiming that if vegans factor in the amount of animals killed in the harvesting of plant crops, READ ON
Breaking the Food Chain Myth
Claiming to be at the top of the food chain is a popular justification for eating animal products and an affirmation of our ability to violently dominate everyone. Yet justifications READ ON
Hunting for Wildlife Population Control and Ethical Eating?
Hunters sometimes argue that if they were to stop hunting, the deer population would explode. This is a false argument, because if hunting were to stop, we would also stop READ ON
Animals Eat Other Animals, So Why Shouldn’t We?
Many people insist that eating animals is “natural” — and therefore morally neutral — because other animals eat animals. But it’s important to realize that, with a few exceptions, when READ ON
Revolting Videos of Turkey Breeding
Domestic turkeys have been bred to be so large, they cannot mate naturally, so hens are forcibly “inseminated” several times. Males are masturbated to get their semen. A “milker” at READ ON
Bikini Turkeys and Prostitute Chickens: The Sexualized Death Wish
This short video piece featuring Carol Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat, provides a very powerful snapshot of how chickens and turkeys are sexualized by popular culture, linking READ ON
Deconstructing the Dairy Is Natural Myth in 14 Steps
The dairy industry has most people believing that cow’s milk, and the cheese, yogurt, butter, ice cream and other products derived from it, are “natural” for us to consume. But READ ON
Vegan Diets to Help Children Thrive
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (the oldest and foremost authority on diet and nutrition in the U.S.) and the American Academy of Pediatrics both endorse vegan diets for children READ ON
The Voice of Sanctuary
“I do what I do simply because I cannot go back outside to the sanctuary and look them in the eye without conveying the information that I feel they would READ ON
Chicken Rescuer Says Hens from New Colony Cages as Damaged as Those from Battery Cages
My personal opinion and that of people I know who have rescued enriched colony caged hens is that there is no difference in health between the battery and colony caged READ ON
